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kalkulat, in Astronomers Spot a Disk Orbiting a Star in Another Galaxy For The First Time Ever
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Aw shucks, for ‘disc’ I read ‘planet’. And ‘Large Magellanic Cloud’ is a close neighbor. But hey, it’s a start.

Ghyste, in Astronomers Spot a Disk Orbiting a Star in Another Galaxy For The First Time Ever

Discworld is real! Need better resolution to see Atuin and the elephants.

smuuthbrane, in Astronomers Spot a Disk Orbiting a Star in Another Galaxy For The First Time Ever
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Tease, had me thinking they’d found a Type II civilization.

StealThisComment, in Enormous planet discovered around tiny star could break our understanding of solar system formation

You’re telling me they discovered an “ultra-cool dwarf star” and didn’t immediately name it Dinklage?

KinNectar, in James Webb telescope reveals 'nursery' of 500,000 stars in the chaotic heart of the Milky Way
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Skip the ads, here's the NASA link: https://www.nasa.gov/missions/webb/nasas-webb-reveals-new-features-in-heart-of-milky-way/

TubeTalkerX, in China's Mars Lander Detects Subsurface Geometrical Shapes in Scientific First

Start the Reactor Quaid….

DavidGarcia, in China's Mars Lander Detects Subsurface Geometrical Shapes in Scientific First

isn’t any shape a geometrical shape? title could have been “China’s Mars Lander Detects Subsurface Thingy”

AstridWipenaugh, in China's Mars Lander Detects Subsurface Geometrical Shapes in Scientific First

saying they identified irregular polygonal wedges located at a depth of about 35 meters all along the robot’s journey.

So like a spaceship graveyard from the Great Star War of 4990 BC?

DigitalTraveler42,

More like cave systems or even continental outlines most likely.

Syldon, in Astronomers discover six planets orbiting a nearby sun-like star
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Archive link

eran_morad, in Astronomers discover six planets orbiting a nearby sun-like star

Way to bury the lede. What’s remarkable here is that the orbits are resonant.

JackGreenEarth, in Astronomers discover six planets orbiting a nearby sun-like star

‘nearby’

100ly away.

Pons_Aelius, (edited )

In space that is nearby.

If we scaled the milky way to the size of earth, that would be about 15km away.

If we scaled the observable universe to the size of earth that would be about 4mm away.

“Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

btaf45,

100 ly years is actually kind of far. It is farther than most of our named stars. I wouldn’t consider it ‘nearby’.

Pons_Aelius,

In space that is nearby.

That was my point, Human scale vs astrophysical scale.

btaf45,

100 ly is not in our local intersteller neighborhood. It is 3x farther than even Arcturus.

Pons_Aelius,

100 ly is not in our local intersteller neighborhood.

Good thing I never said it was.

In space that is nearby.

Human scale vs astrophysical scale.

JohnDClay, in Moon’s scientifically important sites could be ‘lost forever’ in mining rush

Here’s a great video by Cody’s Lab on the subject. Namely, there could be frozen microbes from Earth’s distant past in the permanately shadowed craters since the moon is so much more stable than earth.

youtu.be/8c_4ilhM0wc

Rozz, in SpaceX rockets keep tearing blood-red 'atmospheric holes' in the sky, and scientists are concerned

…not a threat to humanity

Well that’s good at least

Player2, in SpaceX rockets keep tearing blood-red 'atmospheric holes' in the sky, and scientists are concerned

‘scientists are concerned’ and ‘atmospheric holes’ implies something a bit scarier than a short light phenomenon to me, bad headline

Cethin,

Bad headline for the consumer, good headline for the increasingly shitty fear-based media that is trying to get you to click.

notfromhere, in SpaceX rockets keep tearing blood-red 'atmospheric holes' in the sky, and scientists are concerned

This article is a big nothing burger.

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